Thomas Phinney wrote:
> My understanding is that because CJK fonts have so many glyphs, for
> typefaces with multiple weights, use of axis-based technologies in
> designing the typefaces is just as common as it is for western fonts,
> perhaps more so.
Indeed. And as Tim Ahrens has demonstrated*, once you have a weight
axis, one can algorithmically produce width axis masters of reasonable
quality -- i.e. they will need manual refinement for best results, but
will get you a good distance to your goal -- quite easily.
* http://remix-tools.com/addaxis/index.htm
JH